I’m not surprised that they are against it but very surprised that they so blatantly expose their reasoning. If you don’t buy my product, it’s not good for me, therefore it is not a good idea 🤷

The funny thing is that when they indeed are needed, the coach ends up diving in to help because no lifeguard reacted Link

I’ve read the article several times, but still can’t understand why they have stopped.

They do say that they have had no pressure from the administration, and that it is a strategic move to cover wider issues that affect peoples’ lives. But honestly, cutting on presidential approval rate, to measure other opinions seems like a distraction

It’s a sliding slope though. The initial reasoning is fair. But it will eventually spread to other features like (potentially) creating and owning servers or holding administrative and moderation roles

It’s the same with the chat control currently looking over EU. Nobody can say that they are against efforts to stop CSAM. The issue is that the efforts don’t limit themselves to fighting that. Likewise the age verification on Discord does not seem to be targeted or limited to certain content. They are leaving the door open to use it any way they want

The real problem is, that the majority of users won’t change, and it’s the users that make Discord. There could be a much better alternative but if users are too lazy to change, it is worth nothing.

This is the case with Facebook messenger too. There are great alternatives, but it’s messenger that has the userbase

The problem is not the lack of alternatives but the lack of users using the alternatives

That’s a very manipulative title when the first paragraph is:

Donald Trump may have four months left to live and his brain is in decline, a health expert has claimed.

I went through this dilemma too and actually talked with ente about it. It turns out that they did initially try to set it up in Europe as they are a global team, but the EU requirement for physical presence in the country was limiting for them.

They said that there were workarounds for this but decided on setting it up in the US because it was very straightforward with no workarounds or limitations

I like the way they are going with ente though and feel like it’s a fair price. The software works well too

Tax payers are his biggest donors. It’s time somebody worth the money was put in his place. He is milking the country until someone stops him

This is the issue though. They’d rather shoot than run

I have only loosely heard about loops before but never looked into it until I saw this post

First I search for it on Google Play. Then on f droid. No luck

Then on Qwant (because I don’t use Google).

Only when I searched for loops fediverse did I find it

When it yet isn’t available, in the places people will look for it, I doubt that the media will start mentioning it. And this is probably a good thing.

Most users are lazy and wouldn’t consider it an option if they had to download an APK, disable security for them and then signup for a manual approval

It’s better that it gets served when it’s ready, instead of having a reputation of it being complicated to install and sing up to

If you live in Europe I’d have them go through the whole GDPR system by contacting your data agency requesting your data and then a deletion of anything they know about you

None of the superpowers are any longer

Personally i only use youtube to doomscroll “shorts” because I don’t have facebook, instagram or tik tok for that. It’s really no pleasure as such, but a good way to just turn wind down.

My main issue is that most of the information and knowledge that i used to get from reading blog posts, or forum threads, has become videos, with the majority of the content being irellevant

Not sure if this helps, but don’t you need to right click and under permission allow it to run as a program?

Then I can often just double click and run

I only use the terminal to resolve issues. This was more often at the start, when I just swifted from windows but now I rarely use it.

That said, I have no idea what I’m doing. I only copy paste commands that I find online or what they tell me to use in the forum/discord

I use Mint

Trump would threaten McDonald’s with 1000 % tariffs for not having his happy Meal ready when he orders.

He’s not worth listening to

In this case, it was this video

https://youtu.be/0aQM69ZuS5M

I don’t usually speed it up that much bun in this case, I wanted a ‘time lapse’ stile skim of the video

This was a video of a machine treating pomegranate seeds 🤷 don’t ask

But it was filmed in a lot of detail and there was no need to watch the whole thing. The creators should probably have made a highlights video instead.

100% agree. The problem is that there are more and more features that get tugged behind the subscription paywall